Quotes by William Law

If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.

– William Law

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

– William Law

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

– William Law

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

– William Law

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.

– William Law

This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.

– William Law

No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.

– William Law

Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.

– William Law

Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.

– William Law

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.